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    THE LOST CITY OF GREAT ZIMBABWE

    Feb 25, 2021 4 minutes

    When Great Zimbabwe was unearthed in the late-19th century in what was soon to become Southern Rhodesia (also referred to as South Zambezia), neither the German explorers who discovered it nor many academics believed that Africans in the medieval period were capable of building such a place.

    The inherent racism at the height of British domination over the continent led first to the theory that the city was linked to the biblical figures of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, then to the assumption that the city must have been constructed by immigrant settlers from Arabia and the Middle East. In fact, Great Zimbabwe is now believed to have been constructed around the 11th century and inhabited

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